So it’s okay to take away the creators income and replace it with your own just because your project “makes the internet a better place” whatever that subjective tagline means?

The criticism is well deserved imo. It’s a sleazy move from Brave.

Is it not sleazy that ad networks track us everywhere we go?

How many impressions would you need to cover even a $20 monthly hosting bill, never mind feed yourself or pay rent?

Out of genuine curiosity, I decided to run a few numbers to really find out what it would take for ads alone to support a website and the single developer (no family, no debts, just rent, food, utilities, and hosting).

Hosting: $20/month Rent: $800/month (single room studio, if lucky enough to find one) Food: $200/month (likely should be higher due to recent inflation) Utilities: $150/month Total: $1370/month

Typical PPM (Price Per Mille) for ads: $6/1000 ads = $0.006

$1370/$0.006 = ~228,333 ad impressions per month.

You could reduce the number of required visitors by shoving more ads into the page (3 or more), but even with 3 ad impressions per visit, you'd still need about 76,166 visits each month. That's over 7,600 visits every single day!